The precentor was a cobbler, though he never knew it, shoemaker being the name in those parts, and his dwelling-room was also his workshop. From Wordnik.com. [Auld Licht Idylls] Reference
The official in charge of such a schola is usually called the "precentor". From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference
They 've hang'd the minister, droon'd the precentor. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
WILLIAM MASON, precentor and canon of York, died in 1797. From Wordnik.com. [On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions] Reference
For some months past, my old precentor had been failing fast. From Wordnik.com. [St. Cuthbert's] Reference
And the old precentor hurried on to join the choir invisible. From Wordnik.com. [St. Cuthbert's] Reference
In 1875 he was precentor and director of music at Eton, and in. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
'He did in Gib.; and Addis; and at matins over the precentor.'. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Flies]
Kirk-session and congregation, he became precentor in the Old Kirk. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
The stipend of the precentor of Barchester was eighty pounds a year. From Wordnik.com. [The Warden] Reference
I had a good situation as maître de chapelle, or precentor, under the. From Wordnik.com. [The Man-Wolf and Other Tales] Reference
William of Malmsbury was precentor as well as librarian to his monastery. From Wordnik.com. [Bibliomania in the Middle Ages] Reference
"And I'm no 'the precentor; I'm no' the man, ye ken, that lifts the tune.". From Wordnik.com. [St. Cuthbert's] Reference
He was the lay precentor or lay clerk, and he was also a good choirmaster. From Wordnik.com. [Charles Dickens and Music] Reference
"It was not the music halls, of course?" the precentor persuasively insinuated. From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Twins] Reference
We stood as close to the old precentor as we might, but we were in the shadow still. From Wordnik.com. [St. Cuthbert's] Reference
‘No, no,’ he always says when so addressed, ‘not warden now, only precentor.’. From Wordnik.com. [The Warden] Reference
Old Walter Mapes, the jovial canon of Salisbury, precentor of Lincoln, and arch-deacon of. From Wordnik.com. [On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions] Reference
The music of a cathedral is always in the hands of the precentor, assisted by the organist. From Wordnik.com. [Charles Dickens and Music] Reference
The fame of this apartment having been noised abroad, the precentor came one day to inspect it. From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Twins] Reference
It is Edwin Drood himself who says that Jasper was lay precentor or lay clerk at the cathedral. From Wordnik.com. [Charles Dickens and Music] Reference
I found my old precentor weak, and failing fast, but "verra composed," as we say in New Jedboro. From Wordnik.com. [St. Cuthbert's] Reference
After visiting the pastor's family Effi naturally went next to the home of the precentor Jahnke. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12] Reference
T.e other, with Our Lord's Resurrection was given by the Rev.T. T. Griffith, precentor, in memory of T.os. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference
There is no need to describe this precentor; one knows exactly what a man must be who calls things "fishy.". From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Twins] Reference
During the singing of this, all the people remained seated except the precentor, who stood near the pulpit. From Wordnik.com. [From John O'Groats to Land's End] Reference
The precentor found the music, the organist retired to his instrument, the dean took a seat, and the stranger sang. From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Twins] Reference
Which proves, my precentor tells me, that the New Jerusalem is a Presbyterian city and singeth nothing but the psalms. From Wordnik.com. [St. Cuthbert's] Reference
I have well learned since then that by so much as one values one's peace, by that much must one reverence the precentor. From Wordnik.com. [St. Cuthbert's] Reference
The choir sat in the back gallery, and we had a precentor, a fine fellow -- he lost an arm at Ridgway in the Fenian raid. From Wordnik.com. [The Imperialist] Reference
I thocht the precentor that was beatin 'time lookit across at him twa-three times, he was roostin' an 'roarin' at sic a rate. From Wordnik.com. [My Man Sandy] Reference
A special form was provided for the two officers who attended, and another for Mr. Pearce, who acted as my precentor, and myself. From Wordnik.com. [From Aldershot to Pretoria A Story of Christian Work among Our Troops in South Africa] Reference
He found the Tenor with his hat in his hand on the point of leaving the house; but the precentor was not delicate about detaining him. From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Twins] Reference
I nodded sympathetically, trying to convey my sense of the mistake the congregation had made in its choice of both elders and precentor. From Wordnik.com. [St. Cuthbert's] Reference
All eyes were turned upon her, all other voices hushed in wonder, while even the wondering precentor abdicated to join the vassal throng. From Wordnik.com. [St. Cuthbert's] Reference
Archie, although he held solemnly on his way through the benediction, as became a precentor, yet chuckled exultantly all the homeward road. From Wordnik.com. [St. Cuthbert's] Reference
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